Education Teachers

A study attempted to determine the attitudes of state and national officers of vocational agriculture teachers associations toward state supervision and teacher education in agriculture in the United States. A field-tested questionnaire was mailed to 159 officers of all state associations and the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association who were teaching at the time of the study, with a 95 percent response. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way analyses of variance, and T-tests. The study fourd that the state staff was rated most highly on the quality of the working relationship between state staff and teachers, whereas they received the lowest mean ratio on their efforts in helping teachers improve the quality of their teaching. The university faculty were rated highest on usefulness of workshops offered and lowest on opportunity for agriculture teachers to hav